"Okay." I take a deep breath. "I'm in a serious situation here. Jenny is mad because I didn't call her back yesterday, my mom needs me to clean the dishes, my neighbor asked me to mow her lawn, I have to help my brother with his homework, and I have a giant project due tomorrow!"
    
I shoo all five of my clones away to go do their jobs and then I fall back onto my torn couch. It's quite nice to be able to clone myself.
    
After about twenty minutes, my mom enters my bedroom and lectures me about doing what I'm told to do.
    
"And now you're just sitting here and not even talking on the phone with Jenny!" she exclaims. "Get up and do the dishes like I've asked you to!" She leaves the room and suddenly shrieks. "Katherine! What are you doing in the hallway . . . ? Weren't you just . . . Katherine?" She pokes her head back into the room after I dive behind the couch. "Goodness, I really don't care, just go do the dishes."
    
I stand up after my mother leaves and signal my clone in the hallway to go finish her task of calling Jenny. I pick up the remote and turn on the television before I'm interrupted again.
    
"Mom, Katherine isn't helping me with my homework!" my brother yells.
    
"That's because she has to clean the dishes!" my mom replies.
    
"Well, she's in my room, not in the kitchen!"
    
I hear my mother's angry footsteps storming down the hallway. "KATHERINE!"

I dart out into the hallway and stop my mother in her tracks. "Sorry, Mom, just trying to help him get a little homework done!" I lie.
    

My brother stomps into the bathroom, and I make a mad dash for his bedroom.
    
"You have to hide!" I hiss at Homework Helper clone. "My brother is coming back in here!" The clone nods her head and throws herself under my brother's rocket-themed bed just as my mother screeches.
    
"Katherine Smith!" she screams. "What are four of you doing in my kitchen?!"
    
I am so busted.